>> in the news this saturday morning, march 26th, soil engineers will be back out in san pablo over concerns that a landslide will get worse this morning. and construction crews carve a new path by more than 30 families caught off by a rock slide in the mountains. good saturday morning, everyone.

it's 6:00 right now. meteorologist lisa argen is tracking the storm. let's check in with her. >> renewed worries about rises in creeks due to this moderate rain anywhere from 1/4 inch a half-hour to 1/2 inch coming down an hour because of the enhanced rain rates now with the fronts moving on through. take a look at the yellows here from the east bay moving into berkeley and richmond from southern miren county down to san francisco. 280 redwood city, pretty good cell has pushed down through and further south in san jose from the santa cruz mountains up through scotts valley and boulder creek, heavier rain. maybe 1/4 to 1/2 inch already. we're looking at upwards of an inch and a half north bay mountains and the santa cruz mountains. a full look at the forecast coming up. janelle? >> thanks so much, lisa. this rain is affecting people in san pablo. engineers there have red tagged one hillside home and a second

is also in danger of collapsing. as the slope slowly gives way after this week's storm. this weekend, a soil engineer is due to perform more tests to see how saturated the slope along wyman way has become. as you can see from sky 7 e, there's already significant property damage to backyard decks, walkways and retaining walls. the home owners are coming to grips with the reality that there's not were they can do to stop it. so they're packing up and moving out. abc 7's tomas ruman has the update. >> barbara scott has lived in her wyman street home since 1972. rain damage started last sunday. but today, she fears that she might lose her home. >> scared. worried. you know, this is home. and you -- you look around and you say it's a possibility, you know, that i can actually lose my home. >> she's afraid that if the deck goes, so goes her home. a structural engineer for the city of san pablo examined the damage to the three homes on

wyman and red tagged barbara's home. she's leaving to stay with her twin sister in hercules. below barbara's home on hillside avenue, the city suggested sandra givens put a tarp over the hillside. her nephew is taking the tarp off, it's useless. >> it's kind of like putting a band-aid on a heart attack, you know, the damage is kind of already done. whatever the city is going to do, they're going to do. >> so far, the city hasn't been able to do anything. they say the houses are not on city property and sandra givens whose husband has lived in the house for 43 years says the hillside has slid about 10 feet downhill and she fears the mud or one of the many trees above the property will destroy her home. it's already crushed her shed. >> it's been terrible. can't sleep at night. how close it's getting to the house. >> the six affected home owners met with the city council who are studying what to do. san pablo mayor paul morris isn't optimistic. >> if it was me looking at it personally and it was my house, i would say no.

>> you'd walk away. >> i would walk away. >> the mayor says the city is looking into emergency funds for these residents but the home owners tell us their insurance companies told them since they don't have flood insurance they're not covered for any of this damage. a soils engineer is expected to test the soils and tell these home owners whether or not their homes have any future at all. in san pablo, i'm tomas roman, abc 7 news. >> several days of rain triggered a mudslide that has interrupted the supply of clean drinking water to 160 homes in pleasanton. a water main cracked along pleasanton ridge. crews are expected to work through the weekend to repair the damaged main. they recommend that residents drink bottled water until full water service is restored. brief break in the rain last night was badly needed but far too short to put folks in scotts valley at ease. a rock slide on nelson road cut them off from the rest of the city leaving a muddy makeshift road their only access to their homes.

abc 7's lisa gleason reports that road crews in scotts valley took a break in the weather to start repairing some of the damage. >> the peaceful sounds that normally surround scotts valley are replaced by these. >> the sounds of recovery four days after a rock slide shut down nelson road. and cut off more than 30 families from the rest of the city. this partially dry day allowed construction crews to start building a new temporary road away from the slide. >> this place we could easily get started here and go town a reasonable slope and curve into the creek and cross the creek at a place where the banks are very low and up the other side to join the road, you know, the road we've been using. >> that path is now a muddy mess. residents carved it out on tuesday. professional crews are trying to stablize it by laying down gravel. >> like yesterday when you're

walking through the rain and the mud and it's up to your ankles, you know, and slogging home. >> we wanted to give back to the community. >> coastal express transportation is a local company trying to help by offering free rides. >> they'll tell us that they're up here behind the slide area and we'll come up and get them and take them to the grocery store or to the doctor. >> nelson road isn't the only trouble spots. rain has caused several hills to slide. public works cleared these 2 on glenwood drive but emergency crews are bracing themselves for more. >> always going to be concerned about the mountainous roads where there's steep cuts in the access areas and those are going to be potential for slides. >> the fire department here in scotts valley is trying to be proactive rather than reactive to slides. firefighters will work this weekend patrolling the mountains, looking for areas known to slide. in scotts valley, lisa glaseon,

abc 7 news. >> water regulators are trying to prevent more flooding but it's a delicate balance and a huge challenge. the department of water resources is releasing water at reservoirs throughout northern cal tal to prevent overflows especially ahead of the snow melt later this spring. officials say water must be released. otherwise, serious damage could occur. >> at that point, there's no decision making. your reservoir is out of control. your reservoir may actually fail geotechnically or engineering wise so that's just an enormous risk. at no time would we want a reservoir to fail. we don't want them over top either because there is no control at that point. >> last week, water officials increased the expected water allocation to farmers to 70% of their requested amount. that's higher than last year. some say it shows the state's water shortage system isn't efficient enough to adequately serve all of california's water needs. the same storm brought plenty of new snow to the sierra and drivers are still facing delays. drivers must use chains along

intersta interstate 80 from cofax to trucky area. highway 50 from south lake tahoe are still closed. but chains are required to myers. they have spent hours and clearing snow from i-80 in the sierra. zero visibility forced them to shut down the highway on thursday and some parts of the crucial link stayed closed until yesterday afternoon. many skiers and snow borders waited in cofax for the interstate to reopen so they could resume their journey to the slopes. >> waiting in your cars for a couple of hours, might as well get some turns in. >> i've been here since 2:30 yesterday. >> why? >> waited -- the skiing is awesome. i'll wait as long as i can, you know, yeah, it's going to be really incredible tomorrow. >> resort workers spent yesterday trying to get the slopes ready for the weekend. they faced a huge task clearing the parking lot and removing tons of snow from the ski lodge. coming up next, preparing for a handover. the changing level of u.s.

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>> closed captioning brought to you by mancini sleepworld. >> president obama will address the nation on monday about libya. the president is expected to talk about a greater role for nato and less u.s. military involvement. some lawmakers of both parties say the president should have consulted them first before taking any military action. the president does get a big boost from a battle in libya that turned around overnight. libyan rebels are now celebrating regaining control of the eastern city. the gateway to libya's oil fields. the rebels were on the verge of

defeat by muammar qaddafi forces until coalition air support turned things around. it was the fall of the city to qaddafi troops that spurred the u.n. resolution authorizing international intervention that began about a week ago. this 12-year-old boy hides while his father describes the situation they endured when the city was under siege by government troops. we were driving and the rounds were landing around us. rockets were hitting our roof. we saw bodies in the street. but no one can bury them. even the ambulances were getting shot at. >> some families fled the violence and found shelter in the home of strangers. others are scattered at campsites and other rugged terrain outside of the city. >> in syria, witnesses say at least 15 people were shot to death by troops that opened fire on anti-government protesters. the uprising dramatically expanded yesterday but has been going on for more than a week now. this morning, a human rights

group confirms the syrian government has released 70 political prisoners in damascus. in an attempt to appease demonstrators and contain the fallout in the crackdown. there's a new super bug in nursing homes and hospitals and it's spreading. it's called crkp and made more than 350 people sick in southern california. some of them are gravely ill. 40% of the patients have died within a month of infection. it's very resistant to antibiotics. >> there are not many treatment options available. the one that we have available to us is an older antibiotic that is not all that effective. >> crkp is spread by person-to-person contact. a good way to protect yourself is by simply washing your hands or asking the doctors or nurses with whom you interact with to do the same thing. well, more rain, as you can see, when is it going to stop in here's lisa. >> it's picking up actually. it has in the past hour. so we're looking at rain from about 1/2 inch an hour and we're going to see an additional 1/2 inch to an inch across the bay

area. the winds are picking up as well. your soggy forecast is straight ahead. >> thanks, lisa. also next, if you had ohio state in your pool, your bracket is busted! the buckeyes go home. larry beil has the highlights.

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>> the beavers in hamburg creek will have to work like beavers to repair their storm ravaged homes. all four of their dams and their lodge that the beaver constructed were washed away during yesterday's storm. so far, three of the four beavers seen recently living in the creek have been spotted. this is video one of them posted yesterday on you tube. despite the damage, those who keep watch on the beavers don't expect them to move out. and hopefully they'll get a break soon. i know not right now. but they need a chance to rebuild their dams. here is meteorologist lisa argen. >> we need a chance to dry out. fronts pushing through the north bay right now but rain rates are increasing across san francisco and also into the east bay so as we head outside, you can see the rain coming down on the lens here. this is our roof camera and this will be gone in just a couple of hours. so we do have better conditions to look forward to but yet, another system heads our way tomorrow. live doppler 7 h.d. and you can see right around arinda, we're looking at a pretty good

downpour. look at the yellows up through richmond and dublin, pretty good moderate rain into larksburg, getting wet and rain rates increasing through the hills, also just about into milpedas right now. this continues to press east into the san ramone valley and down further south, about an inch and a half before it's all said and done by noontime through the santa cruz mountains and through gilroy and off the coast, you'll notice that we have a few breaks here so we are getting to the back edge of this system. within the next hour in the north bay and in the mountains we're looking at more snow, it's a heavy, wet snow but still, a winner storm warning in effect for another two feet of snow. above 7,000 feet. 48 in livermore. 49 in san francisco with 50 in half moon bay. mountainview and san jose, the winds have been picking up with the passage of the cold front

and we're looking at southeast winds at about 15 miles an hour and you can bet on a few airport delays out there. so highlights, rain. the heaviest rain this morning and then turning to showers this afternoon. light rain tomorrow with the much weaker system east bay and south bay, just a couple of hundredths expected tomorrow and then dry weather for all of next week so we're looking dryer and warmer so the brunt of the rain moving through the bay area right now. we still have this system that's going to track on through midday tomorrow. so this is how it's going to pan out for the rest of your saturday. the cold front pushes through by noon. a few scattered showers behind it. most of the activity right now through the 8:00 hour. we're talking about significant rain with everything we've had the past month, you can expect some minor street flooding and also those creeks to rapidly

rise but we aren't expecting any localized streams or rivers to come out of their banks. up to an inch and a half in the north bay, the santa cruz mountains, 1/2 inch to 3/4 inch in the east bay. next system, much, much weaker. you can see favoring the north bay and the santa cruz mountains so we will look for the snow to continue right through today and then things will begin to clear up in the mountains but still more snow expected for sunday. mid and upper 50's back home with scattered showers this afternoon. so the bulk of the rain moving through in the next several hours, then a weak system tomorrow. then we are looking forward to the sunny, dry, warmer weather. >> yes, time to dry out. ok, lisa, thank you so much for the update. well, abc news is following all the developments going on overseas including what's going on in japan. joins us now from new york to tell us what's come up at 7:00 on "gma." . >> that's right. good morning, janelle. coming up on the show, we'll have the latest on the major setback in japan.

japanese power company officials say they knew about extremely high radiation levels before three workers suffered severe burns. we'll have more on the new details coming up in the show. also ahead, a new warning about artificial food coloring. the government says it may worsen hyperactivity in some kids. and now the f.d.a. is looking to taking action. plus new research shows that 51% of americans over the age of 12 are on facebook. we'll take a look at how the social media giant is changing the way we communicate. and incredible images of a man who spotted a massive shark and unlike everyone else and everything else we do, instead of turning away, he decided to grab his kayak and paddle out for a closer look. we'll talk to him later on this morning in this show. it's pretty incredible. he went out towards the shark and lived to tell about it. >> we wish you were here, britney spears will be performing in san francisco tomorrow for "gma". >> who's that? >> britney spears. >> the big concert. >> never heard of her. yeah, it's been the concert

we've been talking about and promoting for the past few weeks. it will be very exciting. and, of course, we can't wait to tune into it this week. >> yeah, it will air on tuesday on "gma." thank you so much. have a great weekend. >> you, too. >> all right. bye. well, in sports, the march madness continues tonight the top seeded stanford women play north carolina in the third round of the ncaa tournament in the spokane region. last night, more brackets were busted as the tournament's overall number one seed fell. here's larry beil with the highlights in this morning's sports. >> good morning. two blowouts and two nail biters in the ncaa tournament last night. the top seed in the entire tournament, ohio state gone! knocked off by the fourth seed kentucky. battle inside, josh harrelson slams it off the chest of jared sullinger. not sure he even felt that. second half, ohio state down one. sullinger inside, 21 points for the freshman sensation. 40 seconds left, kentucky by

one. make it three. deandre liggins. buck eyes needed three. john caliparri goes to his freshman point guard. kentucky by two. ohio state has five seconds left. they get a good look. william buford and that's for the win! no. kentucky busting brackets everywhere. ousting ohio state 62-60. john henson and the tar heels taking control. man, does he get up high? harrison barnes, he had 20. all unc, seven footer tyler zoeller, big man can run. he had 27 points and 12 boards. tarheels led by 25 at the half and coasted home. carolina rolls 81-63. the richmond spiders surprised a lot of people by reaching the sweet 16. no arachnaphobia for top seeded kansas. the spiders got squished. pregame exchange words.

they proceeded to shove them around on the court. thomas robinson throwing down, 31-9 jayhawks. brady morningstar led kansas with 18. 22 point game. eight minutes left. kevin smith. oh, wow! jayhawks, bigger and better inside. robinson, again, kansas on to the elite eight. 77-57. the nightcap in san antonio, cinderellas, virginia commonwealth and florida state. the seminoles with the block. game tied, does not get the shot off in time. didn't go anyway. they go to overtime at 65. tied at 65. seven seconds left, vcu inbounds brilliantly. bradford burgess took the rams up one. time expires. he had a layup and passed on it. and the rams move on to the elite eight. virginia commonwealth 72-71. santa clara makes the finals of the college insider.com tournament. they beat smu 72-55. kevin foster, big night.

35 points. the broncos will face iona or east tennessee state for the title. the stanford women's basketball team has made the final four three years in a row. if they win this weekend, spokane regional, they'll be going back for another shot of the national championship. standing in their way in the sweet 16, the women of north carolina. now, the cardinals won 25 straight games. much of their success comes from balance. pac 10 player of the year, jeanette pullen as well as kayla peterson. stanford, the consummate team. >> for us, we have very balanced scoring. we have experienced players and i think they'll recognize what north carolina does and we have to really be aggressive. >> the warriors limp into the arena on a six game losing streak but came out scorching against lowly toronto. try to keep up with all the highlights here. ellis for the defense and then wright for three. warriors by nine.

excuse me, i'll take that. seth curry will step it out and jam! monty to end the quarter. season high 45 points in the quarter for golden state. curry for more. this is out of control. they had 84 points at the half and the final warriors cruise 138-100. high school hoops. mike montgomery taking in the state's title game between archbishop and summit. eric gordon just a beast. slapping the backboard. got a feed for that. who cares? he had 17 points, 21 rebounds. 18 seconds. up one and summit blows away the inbounds pass resulting in a middy layup. they go up three and the final shot for the tie by summit is no good. middy captures the division two state title, 53-50. that's a wrap on morning sports. mike schuman will be here with all the hoops highlights including stanford and unc in the women's round in that

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>> the federal government admits part of the nation's radiation warning system was out of service last week as millions of americans worried about being exposed to fallout from japan. no dangerous levels of radiation have been detected in the u.s. from the earthquake damaged fukushima plant. but four of california's 11 monitors were off line for repairs or maintenance last week. in japan, the prime minister called the situation at the plant "grave and serious." officials are still trying to determine if there's been a breach in one of the reactors. japan's nuclear agency says radiation in the sea water just off shore of the plant has spiked to more than 1,200 times higher than normal. the earthquake and tsunami has slowed down production and shipping of japanese goods that come to the u.s. so much so that this tanker from japan was the first to arrive at the port of oakland yesterday since the disaster two weeks ago. abc 7's lee an melendez reports

on the economic impact ever since. >> after china and south korea, japan is the third largest exporter of containerized goods to the united states. things like cars and auto parts, computer and electronic products. and these are the people who move those goods from the port of oakland. >> i've seen a lot of auto parts. and mainly parts and equipment, machinery, agricultural. >> electricity shortages at manufacturing plants in japan have slowed down production. then there are the damaged roads and bridges that make getting goods from point a to b difficult. truck drivers at the port of oakland know they'll start feeling the impact in a few weeks. >> right now, january, february and march, it's like that. it's low. but this year, it's going to be more slow than a lot of years because of the tsunami. that's all. we have to wait for that. >> so major companies in silicon valley like apple are already being affected. james lincoln is with the haas

school of business. >> all apple does is design and most of the assembly is done in china but many of those components that the chinese are putting together are japanese components. >> still, he doesn't think the impact will be long lasting. meanwhile, toyota acknowledged it has stopped overtime at its 13 north america plants knowing there will be shortages. this man is with the port of oakland. >> short term, there will be delays in shippings coming from japan and longer term, we'll have to see what it's going to take for them in their rebuilding process, how is that going to impact potential increase in imports. >> lincoln doesn't see the amount of u.s. exports to japan rising. in 2010, we exported 3.4 billion worth of goods to japan, mainly meat, fruits and vegetables. >> we buy much more from them than they buy -- buy from us. so i don't think you'd see much of a dent in terms of u.s.

exports. >> toyota now says it will resume production of the prius and other hybrids. honda says it cannot assemble cars because of a lack of auto parts. a new gallup poll of likely republican primary voters shows sarah palin's support is fading. just 12% of republicans and republican leaning independents say they would support her in a 2012 white house run. that's down 4% from a month ago. arkansas governor mike huckabee is the favorite with 19% support. massachusetts governor mitt romney is third with 15%. this morning, there's friction and frustration in sacramento over the state budget. the governor and republicans are at odds over spending cuts and taxes. issues that have ordinary californians stuck in the middle. abc 7's capital correspondent nanette miranda has the latest on negotiations. >> assembly speaker walked out of governor brown's office saying budget talks have taken a

step back. two different republican leaders have now taken over negotiations and given governor brown their undisclosed list of demands. two weeks past the governor's deadline. >> we made the presentation to the governor as far as what we felt was necessary in order to restore california and help create jobs and he's gonna kind of think about it and get back to us. >> democrats are becoming increasingly frustrated, threatening to end negotiations and put the special election to extend some temporary taxes up for a floor vote. a proposal that republicans refuse to support without an overhaul in government operations. >> if these guys don't start moving and moving fast, i'm prepared to pull the plug. and if the vote isn't there, then we are going to, you know, consider the other pathways. >> they are glad to hear other pathways are being considered to get it under ballot.

voter approval to pay the higher tax rates for five more years so save those jobs. otherwise, public schools could see the budget axe for another $5 billion, a funding cut they can hardly afford. >> if they're going to take everything away, we should have a right to say, ok, wait a minute. >> i'm feeling sometimes i'm letting kids move on to the next level that didn't get everything they needed to with me. >> one g.o.p. senator involved in early negotiations isn't ready to give up hope. >> i think consensus is getting closer all the time. >> we're hearing from governor brown's office there's 53 items on the list of demands. they're likely to include changes to public pensions, environmental laws and a limit on government spending. in sacramento, nanette miranda, abc 7 news. >> gas prices in california are starting to top $4 a gallon. san francisco is at $4.05. san jose, $4.01 and oakland, $4.

oh, my goodness that's high. oracle ceo larry elson will take a pay cut while he serves on jury duty. they will eventually decide if a ford dealership is liable for a woman slipping and falling. forbes estimates that ellison made $70 million last year and gets paid only $15 a day on jury duty. if you're just waking up this morning, a soggy morning as you can see, the roads are wet. how long is it going to stick around? here's lisa. >> the front moving through right now, so it will be gone in the next couple of hours. this is the last big one to come. here's a look at lake tahoe. the snow increasing today and we'll look at more snow piling up above 7,000 feet. but we will have temperatures rise steadily not only in the sierra nevada but here along your forecast straight ahead. >> straight ahead, a new therapy that can zap away skin cancer.

see if it measures up to the gold standard of treatments.

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>> seems like we always need some rain and people love more snow. now people are like it's time to back off. >> we're over it now and good things because we are going to see an end pretty darn soon. the front pushing through the bay area right now. the scales, there they were, where did they go? definitely travel impacted in the sierra nevada as a winter

storm warning is in effect. back home, rain hitting right now. it has increased in the past couple of hours. but we're beginning to see some dryer air push in to the north bay. live doppler 7 h.d., boy, zip in. busy. we're looking at the increased rain rates into the south bay and the east bay as the area of low pressure pushes to the south and east throughout the rest of the morning. so our first stop in the north bay, you can see a bit of a break around bodega bay. not the case further south around san rafael into the east. american canyon looking very wet. here's a closer look. pleasant hill and concord, you can see a heavier cell about to move into san pablo or richmond. the most moderate rain is in the east bay from union city back towards redwood city along 280. look at the reds there, around just south of milpedas around alum rock and continuing south westward, watsonville.

we'll be looking at more rain in the next hour or two in the south bay but clearing parts of the north bay through the 7:00 hour and you'll notice along the peninsula, daly city very wet. temperatures in the upper 40's to around 50 this morning and we are looking at breezy winds out of the southeast at about 13 miles an hour at sfo but this storm system much weaker than the one we had on thursday. so the rain concentrated in the morning. then a chance of showers throughout the afternoon. next weather system, a very weak rain maker heading mainly to the north and the rain will be much, much lighter, dry and warmer weather setting up by sunday night. here's a look at the satellite and radar composite and you'll notice all of the moisture continuing to press into the central valley and up through the sierra nevada. it is a weaker system, as i said, not much snow. snow mainly in the higher elevations. this is what's to come, the next system but then high pressure is

going to build in behind it. we haven't heard that term in about a month. we're due and here's a look at the front. as it pushes through in the next couple of hours. you'll notice hanging up in the south bay here through about noon. a few scattered showers behind it. not too much so much of saturday will be dry. if you have any plans, morning hours definitely a washout. rainfall rates highest in the north bay as well as the santa cruz mountains in between, anywhere from about less than 1/2 inch to 3/4 of an inch in the east bay peninsula and then sunday's system much, much weaker. might not see anything at all in the south bay favoring the north bay and the coastal mountains so we'll look for the snow to rapidly increase in the sierra nevada for another foot or two above 7,000 feet and then that taper off tonight. mid to upper 50's today. so the bulk of the activity behind us this afternoon. light showers tomorrow and

finally, spring weather returns for much of next week with even mid 70's by wednesday. >> i know. i'll be laying out. >> ok, thanks so much, lisa. a technology developed here in the bay area is being used as an alternative therapy for treating the most common form of skin cancer. there's now a nonsurgical option to consider. here's health and science reporter carolyn johnson with all the details. >> it was right in my right ear, like four little spots. >> when l.j. was diagnosed with squamos cell carcinoma, the first option was surgery. >> involves a skin graft and that would take a long time to heal. >> instead, l.j.'s doctors turned to an alternative for treating common types of carcinoma. it's a form of precisely targeted radiation known as breaky therapy which normally involves the placement of radioactive pellets near the site of the cancer but the doctor says this system called accent works differently. >> instead of using a radio

isotope that actually constantly emits radiation, this is actually a miniaturized x-ray tube that will actually give off the x-rays by the push of a button. >> are you ok? >> the doctor says the lower energy radiation can be delivered directly on to the skin with a minimal chance of spillover into adjacent tissue. >> so it's very important that i place this applicator right up against the area where the cancer is so we can treat it and not anything else that doesn't need radiation. >> the procedure is typically limited to nonmelanoma cancers such as squamos and basil cell carcinoma, the most common form of skin cancer and researchers say it's most effective for use on lesions located near the surface of the skin. for years, the gold standard for skin cancer treatment has been a procedure called nose surgery. the technique tests tissue samples as the surgery progresses ensuring no cancer cells are left behind. >> dr. sarah aaron is chief of

the high risk skin cancer program and a trained surgeon. it has a cure rate of up to 99% and believes it's the best option for many skin cancers. >> when a patient is deciding what kind of treatment to pursue, they should talk with their doctor about the specific cancer type that they have because the potential for that cancer recurring could be more significant in a high risk squamos cancer cell carcinoma than with a superficial basil cell carcinoma. >> still, manufacturers of the system say it produces similar results for lesions no deeper than 5 millimeters and it offers cosmetic advantages. >> the way i present this is this is a good -- a good option or good alternative. >> the procedure itself takes about five minutes with patients like l.j. returning for sessions at least twice a week for two to three weeks. >> they said there would be no pain involved. and it wouldn't take long so all those sounded good.

>> carolyn tells us the system is manufactured by sunnyvale based zoft. they are covered by medicare and some insurance plans. don't go away. >> a sunroof shatters without warning. the dealer says a stray rock hit it. it. we show why that's's's's's's's's

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>> welcome back. look, the roads are pretty clear. looks good but there are chains required from three miles east of placerville to myers at highway 50. 80 is open, too. chains are required from colfax to trucky. it was a frightening experience for san jose woman when her sunroof suddenly shattered above her head while she was driving. just what caused that sunroof to shatter became a point of contention between her and the dealership. that's when 7 on your side's michael finney got involved. >> michelle park remembers what happened vividly that early saturday morning. she says she was driving northbound on highway 101 near sunnyvale and not under an overpass when she heard a loud bang. >> it's like a little mini explosion going off right above your head and you think, oh, my god. what just happened? >> the explosion left a huge

hole in her sunroof. only the jagged edges remain. >> i looked around. i looked in my rearview mirror and saw that all my windows were intact. nothing it shattered. i pulled back the cover of my sunroof and shattered glass started falling on him. >> she brought her new car into stevens creek bmw in santa clara for inspection. the service manager wrote in this e-mail to bmw corporate the shop foreman found no signs of impact damage. the client is requesting this to be repaired under warranty. an hour later, bmw replied. i have picked up more rocks in the last three months and this is not a product issue. she will need to contact her insurance company. >> should have requested for pictures, should have said he'll send somebody out to inspect it. that's it. in three minutes, he said it's a rock issue. how would he know? >> she searched the internet and found that car owners of various makes reported their sunroofs also suddenly shattered. we talked to stevens creek bmw.

officials there declined to go on camera but told us a rock likely hit the window and bounced back on the road. we then discussed this incident with a professor of mechanical engineering at u.c. berkeley. >> we take the mass times the velocity at some given time t. >> he calculated a rock lofted into the air by a vehicle tire would reach a height of 10 or 15 feet. and it would have to come down at 70 to 80 miles an hour to break the sunroof. >> there is not a chance in the world that an unintentional rock that is lofted up by a vehicle would ever break a sunroof panel. >> he says a maximum velocity of a rock coming down would be 25 miles an hour, well short of the needed 70 miles an hour. he said it's more likely the sunroof broke due to the stress caused by changes in temperatures or from fatigue. >> in both cases, i would say that in my opinion, the car manufacturer has the problem.

basically, it's a manufacturer's defect. >> so we called bmw corporate. it agreed to replace the sunroof free of charge before we even informed it of the professor's findings. michelle is happy and so is bmw. we're pleased that everything has been resolved with michelle and that she's happy with the way things went with her car. the professor tells us it is possible rock could break a windshield with a direct hit. but the same scenario is not true for a sunroof since the rock would have to be first lofted into the air. i'm michael finney, 7 on your side. >> coming up next, the revival of a cirque du soleil classic.

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>> nobody in california won the big money. there was one winning ticket sold at a variety store in albany, new york. lucky person! tuesday's jackpot now resets to only $12 million. measly. what's the point of playing? a new production from those creative folks at cirque du soleil has hit the bay area. it opened thursday night at h.p.

pavilion in san jose. as arts and entertainment reporter don sanchez explains, it redefines the circus. >> we've been enthralled by their flashy staging, glittering costumes and athletic ability since cirque du soleil first visited san francisco in 1988. it is about a little girl creating an imaginary world. it's a show created in 1996, now revisited. out of the big top and in arenas like h.p. pavilion and next month at the palace, it embodies the uniqueness of the cirque show. >> more about the emotion of what's happening. not just about having technical skills which, of course, we need from our performance but about being a character and being able to perform on stage so our cirque du soleil headquarters we do all kinds of crazy stuff. learn how to do our make-up. >> and huge for us, but it's the same show. >> olga knew at an early age she wanted to be in the circus

following in her father's footsteps. >> yeah, i started to do gymnastics that gets you -- >> balancing so you really, really have to be focused. you have to train. you have to train every day. >> she married one of the company staffers. they had a baby recently but she's right back into it. >> lot are from a competitive background and great way to extend their careers beyond performing, beyond competing that ends quite young these days if you watch the olympics. so it's a way for them that we need their skills and take to the next level and create some and make them into characters. >> why athletes have to do it all in these shows. they play san jose starting this week at the palace in april. >> wow, looks wonderful. ok, final check of the forecast now with lisa. >> no rain. -- more rain. as we look outside, at our live doppler h.d. back edge pushing through the north bay.

heavier rain in the east bay and south bay. fremont, watch out as well as castro valley, the heaviest amounts here in the santa cruz mountains. up to 1/2 inch to an inch bay area wide and then tomorrow, just a chance of showers and then a big pattern change. mid and upper 60's to low to mid 70's throughout the end of the week. >> ok. from yellow rain cells to yellow sunshine coming up. we'll be back at 8:00 a.m. have a great weekend, folks. see you later. [ asst mgr ] what are you doing?

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